Hostgator Gives Businesses the Tools To Build Great ECommerce Sites

by miso on August 16, 2011

Switching to Hostgator is the key to starting a great Ecommerce website. There are a lot of different components that go into constructing a functional Ecommerce site, and using the wrong web hosting company can make building a working Ecommerce website a nightmare.

Some web hosting companies aren’t set up to work with the many different types of applications that go into building a working Ecommerce site which can make the site clunky and tough for customers to use. If the site isn’t easy to navigate and functional you will lose sales because customers will go to other sites that are easier to use.

Hostgator gives small businesses tools that can help build a functional Ecommerce site in just hours, and provides support to teach you how to incorporate an online store into your site. Here are just a few of the Ecommerce tools that you’ll get for free with a Hostgator account:

Shopping Cart – the core of any successful Ecommerce site is the shopping cart that is used on the site. Without a functioning shopping cart you won’t be able to sell anything. Hostgator offers a free shopping cart that is built specifically to work with Hostgator accounts.

You can also use a shopping cart of your choice if you want to. Hostgator works with any of the most popular shopping cart programs on the Web so that you can seamlessly integrate the shopping cart you want to use into your site. Hostgator design templates make it easy for anyone, even people not experienced with computers, to add a shopping cart to their website.

Statistics – In order to plan out marketing strategies, assess the success of advertising, and assess the popularity of certain products, you need reliable stats. Hostgator gives you a full suite of site stats that can give you the important demographic data you need to take your business to the next level.

Other web hosting companies make you pay in order to have access to detailed stats but Hostgator stats are included for free with every web hosting account. If you want to be able to measure your success while using hard data to plan out future sales strategies, this stats package will give you the kind of detailed data that can help your business grow.

Payment Processing – Choosing a payment processor is one of the most important decisions you have to make when starting an Ecommerce site. Once you find a payment processor that you trust, make sure that you can use that payment processor by choosing a web hosting company that can accommodate many different types of payment processors.

Taking payments online can be tricky, but with Hostgator you don’t have to worry. You can use whatever payment processor you trust the most because Hostgator is designed to work with many different payment processors. You will never be pressured to switch payment processors or work with a specific company when you use Hostgator. If you do have any trouble getting your site to work with a particular payment processor, highly trained Hostgator staff are on call to help you.